We filed 10 complaints and 7 RTIs to various departments concerning the maintenance and monitoring of the river. And as expected, the RTIs were not answered in 30 days. But the authorities played football with our RTIs forwarding them indefinitely to other departments, other officials, trying to evade from our sharp questions, ignoring their responsibility of providing the right information. Few applications are dragged to more than a year, when we appealed to Tamil Nadu Information Commission and only after their strict order, we received the Information.

Below is an infograph that summarizes all the correspondences happened between us and the departments. Click on it to open in a new page:

ACR Timeline 1 InfoGraph

Few nuggets of useful Information obtained in this half year long battle:

Biometric survey is in process. Once done, eviction of encroachments will be taken up – Corporation of Chennai

The Government of Tamilnadu along with the Government of India formulated the Chennai City Rivers Conservation Project at an estimated cost of Rs. 1200 crores, with an objective to prevent sewage entering into the City waterways and also keep them clean on sustainable basis. CMWSSB is the implementing agency for the strengthening and expansion capacity of the sewerage system in Chennai City under the CCRCP. – CMWSSB